Hamzah Wald Maqbul – Khutbah And Your Progeny Is From Your Earnings Hir 10142022
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Alhamdulillah
Rasool
Allahu alaihi wa sallam
He said
He said
He
So that is
most pure.
The most pure
thing that you consume,
the most pure thing that you consume
is the thing that you earned on your
own.
There are a number of other hadith
that are there from the Rasool Sallallahu Alaihi
Wasallam with regards to a person's risk and
provision, what is the most halal thing that
they earn.
And so in some narrations, it has to
do with what? With the cusp meaning in
particular of 2 kinds. 1 is the work
that you do with your own hands.
Why? Because when you do labor with your
own hands, there's very little chance for cheating
somebody.
I was told this by, an imam
from Bosnia. He said that they had a
custom back in the day that when someone
would go for Hajj, they would take their
cash for spending on the trip and they'd
go to a barber and switch the money
with the barber.
It's a sentimental thing. This is not actually
a sunnah nor is it,
something that is
even recommended necessarily, but it's a sentimental idea.
Why? Because a person understands when you go
on Hajj, your money should be pure that
you spend.
Otherwise, there's a doubt whether it's going to
be accepted or not.
This is this much is a hadith of
the prophet salallahu alayhi wa sallam that Allah
ta'ala is pure and he does not accept
anything other than that which is pure. So
the idea was what? And also this is
this is a hadith of the Prophet Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam that the work of your hands
because there's very little chance you're cheating somebody
in it.
And a barber, what you see is what
you get. It's not like you're gonna get
home and be like, Oh my God, he
didn't cut my hair, he just made a
fool of me.
You see what the product is, you see
what the result is, the guy did the
work with his own hands, it's pretty halal.
The second thing the Messenger of Allah Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam mentioned which is Mubarak is what?
Bayun Mabruur.
That sale or that transaction that a person
transaction,
in which they fulfill all of their duties
to all parties involved.
Meaning that
you sold something,
Allah is is pleased with that sale. You
didn't sell the person pork, you didn't sell
the person alcohol,
you didn't,
you know, make a dummy transaction
in which there's some sort of uncertainty or
in which there's usury or in which there's
some sort of cheating. You didn't lie about
the sale, and the person who, you know,
bought the thing from you, that person got
exactly what they paid for. They know exactly
what it is, what's good about it, what's
bad about it, what's interesting about it. It's
a completely
up and up sale that these 2 are
the most what?
The most
pure of
sources of income.
Right? That the most
pure.
Here, Atiyyah means what? The most tayib.
And this is an interesting side note that
the word tayib
means halal.
Nowadays, there's some sort of misunderstanding that tayib
is something different and halal is something different.
They're not.
People ask me these questions actually. Sometimes when
I give a fiqh workshop,
they'll say, Sheikh,
you know,
the meat in the halal store, it smells
bad, and it's of low quality, and I
don't know if the animal is raised properly,
and I don't know about this, I don't
know about that. You know, it's halal but
it's not tayid.
Whereas on the other hand, if I go
and buy the meat from Whole Foods, it's
not halal but it's tayid.
This is completely wrong. It's a failure of
understanding. Go look in the books of tafsir
rather than
TikTok, fatwas, and YouTube stars, and Twitter, and
Facebook, etcetera. And you'll see that in the
books of tafsir, a prerequisite for something being
tayib is that it's halal.
A prerequisite
for something being pure is that it's lawful,
that the Lord accepts it. And if you
don't like the meat that's halal,
and you don't think it's tayib,
that's your problem, you can take it up
with Allah Ta'ala. Obviously, there's always room for
improvement, and we should improve and we must
improve. And we should
not accept suboptimality
in things that we eat and drink or
in ways that we transact. However, there's a
basic minimum, a floor that's been met, and
that's dictated not by you or your nose,
it's dictated by who?
By Allah Allah
Allah.
That the most pure,
the most pleasant thing that you consume from
your provision, from your risk is what?
That thing that you earn.
That thing you earn with your own hand
or through a proper trade or through some
sort of proper contract.
It says, well, Inna uladaqkumin
kasbikum. Sallallahu alaihi wa sallam. He said that
also
to consume, to eat, to drink,
to benefit
from your own children.
From your own children, what they earn? This
is also from your kasb. This is also
from your earning, meaning it's from your halal
earning, and it's from your pleasant earning, there's
no harm in it, and there's no blame
in it. You see, the problem is nowadays,
we think,
I don't want to be dependent on anybody.
I don't want to be dependent on anybody.
But the fact of the matter is you're
always dependent on people.
It is a sunnah. It's a sunnah.
Confirmed sunnah.
If you're able to do something without asking
from others,
then it is a sunnah to do things
without asking.
Alal Hazrami radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu.
One of the later converts to Islam, he
converted after the Fathur Makkah.
Yet, what a maqam, you a righteous man.
It's recorded, one of his miracles that are
recorded by these companions radiAllahu ta'ala Anhu
is that he knew
the name of Allah Ta'ala such that if
he made du'a by it, Allah Ta'ala would
answer to the point where once he was
with his detachment
in the eastern part of the Arabian Peninsula.
They were fighting the enemy, the enemy fled
from battle. And in order to pursue them,
because you can
flee around a body of water, they fled
from them, they're moving faster.
So in order to catch up with the
enemy, Alal Hadrami, he made du'a,
and then he led his soldiers across the
water, that they literally walked across water,
and they caught up with their enemies and
they defeated them.
Someone might say, well, these are just tall
tales you people are making up. Guess what?
Eastern Arabia, for whatever problems it may or
may not have, nobody worship worships idols there
anymore.
The job got done.
Coming back to this issue, Alal Hadrami,
he
asked the Prophet Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam
for for for money. Once, rasulullah sallallahu alaihi
wa sallam gave him. He asked him twice,
rasulullah sallallahu alaihi wa sallam gave him. He
asked him a third time, the messenger of
Allah Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam explained to him, look,
you can ask, I can give, that's fine.
But if you really want to know something,
then it's better not to ask. It's better
to be be to be the one who
gives than to be the one who receives.
So that's fine. Within a certain rational set
of parameters,
you shouldn't want to be dependent on other
people. You should do things yourself. If you
can get up, it's a sunnah. Do it
for the sake of Allah. If you can
get up and get something yourself, don't ask
another person for help. Don't ask your children
for help. Don't ask your wife for help.
Don't ask your husband. Do it yourself.
That's there's a lot of dignity, a lot
of khair and barakah in it. However, the
idea that somehow you're gonna be able to
get through life without depending on anybody ever,
this is
A, it's completely impractical
because you will get sick one day. What?
Should people abandon you to die in the
street?
You will be unable to do certain things.
Should you never ask for help? Just let
yourself, you know, like your car breaks down
in the middle of winter. At some point
or another, you have to ask people for
help at some point. And when that happens,
there's no blame in it. And in fact,
that's how human society works.
We're not lone wolves that we all live
separately from one another. If we lived that
way,
society would break down.
It's the
talukat,
those ties that we have with one another
that make society function.
And one of the greatest
scams that people have
fallen victim to, Muslims and otherwise,
is this idea nowadays that somehow or another,
you don't need anybody in your family?
Husband and wife don't need each other. At
a flick of a wrist, they're ready to
run
away from one another. That parents don't need
children and that children don't need their parents.
This is the building block the society is
made on. The modern nation state.
We're talking about like post,
like Prussia.
The modern nation state,
in order to be able to sustain large
armies
and the economies that are needed to hold
those large armies,
They radicalized the way human societies work, which
is what? They made the state replace
family.
That now the state is the thing that
commands your greatest loyalty, the state is the
thing that you worship and there's no god
other than it, the state is the thing
that you look to for your future. In
the old days, what happened?
When you're a child, your parents used to
take care of you. Now it's the state.
The state decides is your parents doing a
good job or not.
So
the mindset is backwards. Right? In the old
days, people used to be afraid that the
government might do something to my children
and so I'm gonna protect the kids or
that someone in the street might do something
to my children. I'm the one who's gonna
protect the kid. The buck stops with me.
Now, what is it? It's the other way
around. If the parents are abusive,
the default assumption is what? What if the
parents abuse the children? At least the state
will step in. This is the the the
thinking pattern that's there in people's minds. There's
a subtle difference. Obviously, if the parents are
abusive, the state should step in. And if
the state is abusive, the parents should protect
their children.
But the idea is that where is the
the the level of the most trust? Is
it with the state or is it with
the family?
Husband and wife don't get along with one
another.
Who settles their dispute? In the old days,
it used to be the family. Now, who
is it? It's the state. The idea is
like, well, families are abusive. You know, sometimes
they pick sides and this and that. What?
Is the state always fair?
Neither is the state perfect nor is family
perfect.
But the idea is what? We used to
trust and depend as human beings, not just
as Muslims.
Because this is connected with the things that
we were talking about before. We have to
relearn how to be human beings.
As human beings,
we used to trust family. Now, the state
has subsumed that
that role. When you're old, who's gonna take
care of you? In the old days, who
used to take care of you when you're
old? It was your children.
Now who takes care of you? It's the
state.
It's the state you rely upon. It's the
state that you depend upon. Someone says, man,
this guy dresses like he's from the middle
ages and now he wants to yank us
back into the middle age. I'm happy with
my Social Security. I've been paying into it
for years now. I don't wanna, like, go
down this path. Okay. Don't. Let's talk about
it for a moment.
Social Security right now is currently projected to
go bankrupt.
To go bankrupt
2 years
before it's time. Meaning what? The number of
people who are going to,
you know, need to draw from Social Security
is going to increase
is going to increase at a rate faster
that they will consume what it is that
they put into Social Security
before
the,
before that, their lifetimes are done. So basically,
it's gonna go bankrupt. After that, it has
to be artificially sustained by taxpayer money. They're
just gonna increase taxes on the people who
are alive. Why is that?
Because there's a bunch of old people, there's
not enough young people to take care of
them. And why should that not surprise you?
People don't want to have children anymore.
People's goal in life is to work a
career. That I want to work a job
for somebody else, make some money for somebody
else, that's their goal. When a mother does
it, it's disgusting. Why? Because amongst normal human
beings,
a mother, her most honored role is what
is to take care of her children.
When a father does it, it's also disgusting.
Why? Because men used to get jobs, why?
So that they could provide for their families.
People don't have children anymore, they don't want
to have children anymore.
You can blame women if you want. I
know there are very few women in the
congregation.
So as men, we can blame the women
if we want. We're the ones who pick
and marry those women who?
Wanna be this xyzcareerwoman.
I'm not against women getting an education.
I'm not even against women wearing working jobs.
Nor am I against the man getting an
education or working a job.
I've been in school longer than most people
will have been.
However, however,
I blame a woman
who values her career more than she values
her family, just like I blame a man
who values his career more than he values
his
family. Why?
That state that you're depending on,
it's on the verge of collapse.
Who's going to take care of you when
it's not working anymore? It's going to be
your family. If you don't have it in
your family, watch, this will happen on our
lifetimes.
Already, laws about suicide, I mean, the you
know, the Western civilization which purports to be
Christian, and is Christian in fact at sometimes.
They used to consider
suicide to be haram, a sin, and an
abomination
unto the Lord, like we do.
Now, countries in Europe and jurisdictions within America
are decriminalizing
it and making it lawful.
You will see what is the solution to
the state burgeoning under its
under its own weight,
not being able to provide for old people
because it's not having any new people come
into the system, it's the same thing that
happens with
families
that parents are being ignored. Right? Parents are
being ignored by their children. So the state
that tells old people, Go kill yourself.
It's a macrocosm. The microcosm is what? Families,
nobody wants to take care of their own
parents so they abandon them.
You want to be a modern person? See
the analogies between the 2 of them. What
did the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wa
sallam say? There's a Sahih hadith that many
people are familiar with. There's a Sahih hadith
that many people are familiar with. Tazawajul
wadudalwaloodfa'inni
mukathunbikumul
umam. Oka Makala
and there are other narrations of it as
well, there are other wordings.
That the Messenger of Allah sallallahu alaihi wasallam
said, Mary,
that woman that
is beloved to you and that will give
you many children
because I will boast about your numbers on
the day of judgment.
Someone says, this is very old fashioned. The
earth is overpopulated.
I agree. There are some people, it doesn't
make sense for them to have, like, 30
children right now.
I'm not advocating people make decisions that
are harmful. But the idea is as much
as you're able to, it's good to have
a a big family.
Why? Because people are going on to Facebook
and depressed that their posts are not getting
liked as much as somebody else's. They're going
on to TikTok
and Instagram because they're not getting as many
likes and they're not getting as many views
and they're not getting any attention. Nobody cares
about me. Nobody loves me. Nobody this, nobody
that. They suffer suffer psychiatric issues because of
it. All of us do. All of us.
We're all in it. Whereas what? Literally, there's
a preprogrammed, genetically preprogrammed,
genetically preprogrammed
organism
that's there to provide you a love that
will allow you to endure the most difficult
things in life,
that will allow you to
see them just for a moment and it
will make you forget all of your worries
and concerns.
That will allow you to suffer sickness and
illness and keep the will to live when
other people
don't
have
it.
That will take care of you when you
become old.
That will
cheer you up, will brighten up your day,
all of these things.
And on the day of judgment,
all of their good deeds will be what?
Free
Hasanat in your bank account. Somehow or another,
somebody convinced everybody that working in a hospital
or working in,
Goldman Sachs
or working in some Schlock Corporation
or working, you know, a gas station or
working some other job is somehow or another
more important and more essential for your happiness
and your success to the point where they
shifted the benchmark of what success is to
that instead of the thing that,
literally, you don't even have to be a
Muslim to agree about it. Everybody knows that
this is the thing that will bring you
happiness. This is the reason that people
in poor
societies,
bleep, whole societies,
according to the the the language of this
globe.
3rd world countries, stone age countries, failed states,
they're psychologically
more resilient than people over here are.
They're psychologically more resilient than people over here
are. Alhamdulillah, Mashallah Taha said, You know, go
travel in the world, see what's going on
outside. You know? America isn't everything, Illinois isn't
everything, Chicago isn't everything.
It's something, it's important, we love it because
it's our home, but there's more to see
in the world.
I was so shocked when I went to
Bosnia, I saw how
psychologically resilient people are. That there are people
who will discuss with you the genocide of
their own
kom,
and the death of their own family members
and certain things worse than death that a
person fears more than death
happening in front of their eyes.
And you get the distinct feeling that this
person is psychologically more put together than people
who never saw a day of hardship in
their life in America.
That there are people who get bent out
of shape about social media,
and about losing a job, or about the
real estate market, or about something having to
do with money, more than these people got
bent out of shape because of genocide.
Torture, *,
and unspeakable things.
What's the difference?
What's the difference? One place you live amongst
your qaum, you live amongst your people, you
live amongst your relatives, you live amongst your
support system.
It's a normal thing, it's a natural thing
and it helps you heal, it helps you
to become whole again.
Many of us, at least those of us
who are immigrants, but even the people who
are from the native indigenous population in America,
many of us, many of us, not all
of
us, are in such a situation that because
of the poverty that we've suffered,
we have this idea that somehow money is
going to solve all the problems. It's not
even in the dunya, it's not even going
to solve all the problems.
I'm talking about a purely materialistic, a purely
materialistic point of view. Nami asking the question
of, is there a life after death?
And it's obviously not going to. And this
is the bonus. Nobody said kufr is supposed
to make sense.
Right? What is the work of Shaikh Anas?
Halakul Hath one nassal, that he will get
you to destroy your productivity and he will
get you to destroy your
lineage. Somehow or another, we forgot about all
of these things. The point of this talk
is not to go home and yell at
your wife and say, oh, you know, like,
you have to have kids and you have
to do this, you have to do that.
Look how pious I am.
The thing that was broken,
it didn't break in a day.
And to fix it is not gonna be
fixed it's not gonna be fixed in a
day.
You can't just tell your wife that, Hey,
I wanna have a bunch of kids now,
so cancel your career.
A number of choices were put into motion
in order to make that thing happen.
It's quite possible you yourself in your own
situation are not going to be able to
undo it.
But the first step toward fixing something that's
broken or to correcting a behavior that was
wrong is first understanding that there was a
problem.
It's to ask Allah Subhanahu Wa Ta'ala for
his help, to talk about things, to discuss
things, and then make holistic solutions. Solutions are
not just what? Just not just somebody telling
you what to do.
To make holistic solutions, that how is it
that we can start spending more time with
one another? How is it that we can
start spending time with one another, with our
children? How is it that we can help
this process? If we don't have our own
children, how is it that we can help
raise our the nieces and nephews, or the
children of the Ummah of Sayidina Muhammad Sallallahu
Alaihi Wasallam?
Derive some sort of meaning from that.
And the thing is not everybody is gonna
have kids, I know that. It doesn't mean
that their marriages are useless.